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ED Discovery is a Windows Application which assists you in piloting in the Elite Dangerous universe. Started by Commander Finwen, it has been greatly expanded in the last few years by a team of programmers who have added many features. Originally only a explorers tool, since Elite 2.2 and journals it has many more features which warrant a post in this section because its useful for all commanders, whatever your profession!

Free Voice Control - control Elite using your microphone! Install the FVC action pack, make sure you have key bindings set in elite for items you wish to voice control, and talk away! Over 140+ voice commands built in!

Inara integration

EDSM integration (New for 11.0 is an EDSM Web view Panel)

2D and 3D Maps from EDSM Data

Search EDSM star data

Combat, Trading panels

Overlay panels which can be layed over the Elite screen to provide extra in game visual data

EDD supports add on packs that can be installed individually and which expand ED Discovery. The add on packs themselves are customisable as they are written in a simple programming language.

The main pack is the voice pack, which reads out the journal entries as they happen in your chosen windows text to speech voice. Voice recognition pack is available, as above. Customisable keyboard shortcuts packs are also available if you wish to use tools such as voice attack to control ED. Other packs are available, check your in program add-on menu.

EDD now also supported 3rd party DLL integration for the adventurous programmers out there.

Customisable Pop outs, both transparent (so you can place them over ED and have them in game) and non transparent, covering information that you need for exploration:

Trading:

And for engineering/exploring:

11.0 introduces a web server, which allows your tablet to act as a Roccat style grid to control elite:

ED Discovery features a 3d star map of commanders visited systems, courtesy of EDSM. You can pan and zoom, click, see information on your trip and on each star:

ED Discovery integrates with EDSM, EDDN, EDDB, Inara. It can send your journey to EDSM and retrieve information from EDSM from your account. It can send your information (scans etc) to EDDN for upload to the tools which use this. It will update Inara on your current state of play. It will inform EGO about your amazing discoveries.

Over 30+ panels of data is available, giving you data on your ships, their loadouts, your commodities and materials. It has panels to allow you to plan an expedition, plan a exploration star set, plan a route through the galaxy.

It has panels which can be transparent and can be overlayed on top of your Elite Dangerous Borderless window to provide HUD like features.

A screenshot converter allows you to convert those pesky BMPs from ED or steam into a PNG and give them a decent name. Route planners allow you to plan your trip. Your history can be filtered for view, individually on each tab/pop out, showing only the events you want to see or using a advanced filter to remove events on a much more individual basis (npc chatter for instance).

ED Discovery can be downloaded from here. We support both stable builds, and beta builds, each individually installable. We also support portable builds where you can place the data where you want it.

Great software team! One question I have is - is it possible to customise the voice add-on to tell me when I am below 25% fuel? in your answer, please assume I have the technogical literacy of a 10 year old
Lazrien

You could change this, Add-Ons, Edit Add-Ons, select voice pack (bottom left), find the FSDJump entry, click on Program (P).. you can edit the entry

Cmdr. Finwen is working on bringing in the Frontier API to give full ship details to us, so later we will know the fuel tank size of your ship, and can set this one directly. That's planned for a few versions time.

So, at the moment, we don't know the particulars of your ship.. what its fuel tank size is..

Cmdr. Finwen is working on bringing in the Frontier API to give full ship details to us, so later we will know the fuel tank size of your ship, and can set this one directly. That's planned for a few versions time.

You could change this, Add-Ons, Edit Add-Ons, select voice pack (bottom left), find the FSDJump entry, click on Program (P).. you can edit the entry

Cmdr. Finwen is working on bringing in the Frontier API to give full ship details to us, so later we will know the fuel tank size of your ship, and can set this one directly. That's planned for a few versions time.

This is one of the reasons i put a programming language in there, instead of just hardcoding it, because I knew with the kind of guys who played Elite that they would want to customise it to their taste..

Love this tool and have knocked up a Google Sheet doc that does further analysis of the data - you need to export your exploration data first and then import in - full instructions on the sheet. Be great to see some of this analysis incorporated into future releases!

EDDiscovery is showing this error when first started, but appears to be functioning correctly. Refresh and EDSM Sync don't show any errors. Restarted EDDiscover three times and the error was shown each time.

If anyone knows how to do this. I figure it'll be someone watching this thread.

Is there anyway for EDD with the voice plugin, to tell me in voice if the system I've arrived (or jumping to) is known or unknown according to my local edsm cache? I'd find this handy in two ways, in popular destinations such as nebulae to maybe local a system that not have been previously cataloged, and to know quickly if I should bring up the system map and start getting some data.

I turned off the voice pretty much immediately, I found it pretty verbose, so if it does this by default and I've not realized. I apologize in advance for my ignorance .